Re: Proto-penguins lived with dinosaurs

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/9/2006 5:27:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
david.marjanovic@gmx.at writes:
 
< The good professor either did not explain what "using as a calibration  
point" means, or it got shortened away by the newspaper. So, one way or  
another, we are dealing with a journalist who has not done his  &%Â&ÂÂ$ 
_*JOB*_ of understanding what he's writing  about.>

Contrast this:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3628684a7693,00.html
Penguin fossils  world's oldest 
06 April 2006 
By MATTHEW TORBIT
"Dna tests on the  Waimanu penguin fossils, found near the Waipara River, 
have determined they are  between 60 million and 62 million years old â or up 
to 
10 million years older  than any other penguin remains discovered. 

with this:
 
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1610327.htm
Penguins survived when dinosaurs died
Marilyn Head
ABC Science  Online
Friday, 7 April 2006 
<snip>
"The study incorporates genetic evidence of the evolutionary relationships  
between penguins' distant cousins like shearwaters, albatrosses, ducks and  
moas."
 
"The researchers used DNA from these birds to provide a broad framework of  
family relationships which, together with the fossil evidence, is used to  
predict when those birds must have arisen."
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Mary